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Episode 228: The Return of the Pharaoh

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“those sacred writings, drawn in Egyptian letters” [STUD] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQxtyamXGJSMsubL0bjcE6ZptJh-rMT2ZfaSjkq9PuhjvfUrI41re8Xpw1oK5ngg_e72vORyH3H3zKpD9abcqmj2kZTo9fZTkNfbGDIQHnf7luJmbtLLjw4PHa9Dv7XFfAF11htS1v07_/s2048/ihearofsherlock228+header.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQxtyamXGJSMsubL0bjcE6ZptJh-rMT2ZfaSjkq9PuhjvfUrI41re8Xpw1oK5ngg_e72vORyH3H3zKpD9abcqmj2kZTo9fZTkNfbGDIQHnf7luJmbtLLjw4PHa9Dv7XFfAF11htS1v07_/w640-h480/ihearofsherlock228+header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>If there is one author to whom we owe the rise in popularity of Sherlock Holmes in the mid-1970s, it is Nicholas Meyer, BSI ("A Fine Morocco Case"). It was his novel <i>The Seven Per-Cent Solution</i> (which spent 40 weeks on the <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller List) and his screenplay for the film version of the book that put Sherlock Holmes back in mainstream consciousness.</p><p>Meyer and Holmes have returned with <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3ci4dKU" target="_blank">The Return of the Pharaoh</a></i>, another Holmes adventure tale that takes us to Egypt in 1910 amid the Egyptomania craze that was running high in Europe at the time. </p><p>As The Return takes Holmes and Watson on a journey to North Africa, our conversation with Nick takes us on a literary journey spanning 45 years as he looks at how his writing has (or hasn't) changed over that time. We also point out the timely nature of his topics, homages to Conan Doyle, and even get nods to Homer, Edgar Allan Poe, and Agatha Christie.</p><p>It's an interview you won't want to miss with the master of latter-day Sherlock Holmes novels.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please be sure to play our <b>Canonical Couplet</b> quiz: the winner will receive a copy of T<i>he Return of the Pharaoh</i>. If you've already read it, play anyway and choose someone to give it to! Answers are due by November 29, 2021 at 11:59 a.m. EDT.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 228: The Return of the Pharaoh

“those sacred writings, drawn in Egyptian letters” [STUD] If there is one author to whom we owe the rise in popularity of Sherlock Holmes i...

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Baker Street Elementary – The Age of Information

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“the hope of getting some information” [SILV] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TEytjab7gCpDtpksmHjBcs3oxMGwyn3JDQiTMXMkSwyDIwUkbHTpjJ7C_GRBitql45xF0v5TSy0rTBc1SBhDRJdUCyZ8gEgPYpOjttOrtD2P8wrk_slZiwseqYwn1rO8BqSiYBHeP951/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TEytjab7gCpDtpksmHjBcs3oxMGwyn3JDQiTMXMkSwyDIwUkbHTpjJ7C_GRBitql45xF0v5TSy0rTBc1SBhDRJdUCyZ8gEgPYpOjttOrtD2P8wrk_slZiwseqYwn1rO8BqSiYBHeP951/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div>Libraries are fascinating places. And while the modern library is a wonder of digital access and interconnectedness like never before, libraries have their origins in ancient history. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" target="_blank">The Library of Alexandria</a> was the center of the ancient world, containing scrolls and documents of knowledge accumulated and created up until that time. We often wonder how the world might have been different had the Library of Alexandria survived.</div><div><br /></div><div>By the mid-1800s, <a href="http://www.mebondbooks.com/2016/02/15/victorian-lending-libraries/" target="_blank">Victorian lending libraries </a>had come into existence, giving the populace an opportunity to expand their knowledge with access to books they might not otherwise have in their households.</div><div><br /></div><div>Throughout the Sherlock Holmes stories, we catch glimpses of private libraries that appear in country houses, university libraries, and other references to books in collections.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's a little quiz: see if you can identify which Sherlock Holmes story is associated with these quotes about libraries.  Answers are at the bottom of the page.</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>“...a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.” </li><li>“I regret that I have kept you waiting,” said I, sitting down in my library-chair. </li><li>“There was excellent wild-duck shooting in the fens, remarkably good fishing, a small but select library, taken over, as I understood, from a former occupant, and a tolerable cook, so that he would be a fastidious man who could not put in a pleasant month there.” </li><li>“ ‘Brunton, the butler, was in the library. He was sitting, fully dressed, in an easy-chair, with a slip of paper which looked like a map upon his knee, and his forehead sunk forward upon his hand in deep thought.”</li><li>“The thieves ransacked the library and got very little for their pains. The whole place was turned upside down, drawers burst open, and presses ransacked, with the result that an odd volume of Pope’s <i>Homer</i>, two plated candlesticks, an ivory letter-weight, a small oak barometer, and a ball of twine are all that have vanished.” </li><li>“We were residing at the time in furnished lodgings close to a library where Sherlock Holmes was pursuing some laborious researches in early English charters.” </li><li>“Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played écarté afterwards. The butler brought me my coffee into the library, and I took the chance to ask him a few questions.”</li><li>“Finally I drove to the London Library in St. James’s Square, put the matter to my friend Lomax, the sublibrarian, and departed to my rooms with a goodly volume under my arm.”</li></ol></div><div><br /></div><div>Now let's hit the books at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRB2rDLnD6zpinJ-zLGOK0lkSvn2Qle5w6gOITF61iBBUCBF4hVebRNRTzdaif3dkBxKgrpqydZaNtZYcNAGSNP5FFGUHuWTRZSXhRCbCcdL3ClOFsTzfhxnrkBVt_971giMSjSefyeP8V/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRB2rDLnD6zpinJ-zLGOK0lkSvn2Qle5w6gOITF61iBBUCBF4hVebRNRTzdaif3dkBxKgrpqydZaNtZYcNAGSNP5FFGUHuWTRZSXhRCbCcdL3ClOFsTzfhxnrkBVt_971giMSjSefyeP8V/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXM6m7JgD55kvuaHwST2lujz2Vs-ctjOrZ-Y2t7dmqwfA_kcWKkPyHQA7-ERNo1eeafqL-dMU1gGsnj6methDz4MaZjsk4Hs0m4o_V4U6MfAgLbNU_7B9ZkNIXxTnRVhAX8qn1hOasf0d/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.3.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXM6m7JgD55kvuaHwST2lujz2Vs-ctjOrZ-Y2t7dmqwfA_kcWKkPyHQA7-ERNo1eeafqL-dMU1gGsnj6methDz4MaZjsk4Hs0m4o_V4U6MfAgLbNU_7B9ZkNIXxTnRVhAX8qn1hOasf0d/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizGTNBv6m42w0FuTYrrJQomlbZ_OEfi2SD7R2l-buT-oR0mY864kpxbwRW_09iSsUWf1rME0nmGdJ7Z9OhjSJhcYDqweL5pFI60sKZHo_TGFAX0iymcDnM7E_3iDFkbwOGA8Cej2hXB_f0/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizGTNBv6m42w0FuTYrrJQomlbZ_OEfi2SD7R2l-buT-oR0mY864kpxbwRW_09iSsUWf1rME0nmGdJ7Z9OhjSJhcYDqweL5pFI60sKZHo_TGFAX0iymcDnM7E_3iDFkbwOGA8Cej2hXB_f0/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoU3oSJgEpudmMSYc6YFmkwhHZFdKBZTMtiRiUIA3QkG54wrlXBX0-opoQ0Op5dwZl44TI-kaqtt26BffjO3NuVocpdtEUknRmV2c2ELvKKvQig8aZrkQksAJRXbHHhqKNg8L3GKNbEkTl/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.5.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoU3oSJgEpudmMSYc6YFmkwhHZFdKBZTMtiRiUIA3QkG54wrlXBX0-opoQ0Op5dwZl44TI-kaqtt26BffjO3NuVocpdtEUknRmV2c2ELvKKvQig8aZrkQksAJRXbHHhqKNg8L3GKNbEkTl/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+119.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Quiz answers</h4><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>"The Five Orange Pips" </li><li>"The Engineer's Thumb"</li><li>"The <i>Gloria Scott</i>"</li><li>"The Musgrave Ritual"</li><li>"The Reigate Squires"</li><li>"The Three Students"</li><li><i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i></li><li>"The Illustrious Client"</li></ol></div><div><br /><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div></div></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div>

Baker Street Elementary – The Age of Information

“the hope of getting some information” [SILV] Libraries are fascinating places. And while the modern library is a wonder of digital access ...

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by Scott Monty

Book Review: A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“a ghastly crimson halo of blood” [REDC]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0BqLJa8drcSgZH5eaX7wSw9eHatW-3YCwHFBXZ6LbXZZpbJjpCo9Bidb92FVlBMbQUrMYr8MmumElJ9bpFI5-s_hIBnnON6q78vzKDJ5ZSKfcPeSgnMUc6Md975G9063WN4ddiH6aTgB/s1400/a+study+in+crimson+header.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1400" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0BqLJa8drcSgZH5eaX7wSw9eHatW-3YCwHFBXZ6LbXZZpbJjpCo9Bidb92FVlBMbQUrMYr8MmumElJ9bpFI5-s_hIBnnON6q78vzKDJ5ZSKfcPeSgnMUc6Md975G9063WN4ddiH6aTgB/w640-h474/a+study+in+crimson+header.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>There have been many Sherlock Holmes stories and pastiches set in both the classic (1890 <span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 16px;">– </span>1910, or thereabouts) and modern eras. <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3qpOyl2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942</a> </i>takes a different approach, with a setting inspired by the 1940s Universal Pictures film series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. </p><p>As told by Robert J. Harris, someone calling himself "Crimson Jack" is recreating the murders of Jack the Ripper. The book beautifully sets the stage with a minor case that introduces us to a Sherlock Holmes, who's been taking up government work and a John Watson who's volunteering at a hospital to do his part for the war effort. They're in their fifties, shaped by their service in the previous conflict (where Watson was wounded, as their backstories have been updated in time). </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTfHJsu2cA1CxxZF-9DjKjzFXMfNKfNJ4zEmogF-hnJLiXSoS7cqzz9FCss0A9XTo9Io9nUXo04dEsyMoAwHm1Z2bz_VVRxED-G2uysRMsSbXBLcsITY7nC_P9qe349jBAul0xcEkZTaN/s2048/a+study+in+crimson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTfHJsu2cA1CxxZF-9DjKjzFXMfNKfNJ4zEmogF-hnJLiXSoS7cqzz9FCss0A9XTo9Io9nUXo04dEsyMoAwHm1Z2bz_VVRxED-G2uysRMsSbXBLcsITY7nC_P9qe349jBAul0xcEkZTaN/w133-h200/a+study+in+crimson.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>In a world of blackouts and sandbagged buildings and missing young men who have gone off to war, Holmes and Watson hunt a serial killer. The immediate mystery takes place against larger political questions: about supporting a fading empire, maintaining public morale, and changing professions and roles. <p></p><p>That's best seen with one of the new characters, Gail Preston, an American radio journalist. She's brash, smart, and puts Watson quite off-balance. She plays "charming and eccentric" quite well, manipulating suspects into divulging information. Then there's Commander Phil Rayner of military intelligence, sent to work with the group by Mycroft Holmes, and of course, old friend Inspector Lestrade.  </p><p>The language nicely gives a historic flavor while still being immensely readable. The Holmes we see here is witty and a bit prickly. He tends to investigate in disguise and keep his cards close, while Watson (our narrator) doggedly follows along where instructed. Harris does a nice job keeping Watson baffled without descending into the idiocy that has been the public perception of Bruce's portrayal. </p><p>I blush to admit that I haven't actually seen those movies (yet!), so I had some concern about how much I'd enjoy this version (coupled with a feeling that Jack the Ripper is as overdone as Moriarty), but I was surprised at just how much I enjoyed it! The characters work whenever you set them, I believe, but the wartime environment plays up the drama. I'm eager to see the films that inspired this novel, now, as well as more in this series. A recommended read. </p><p><br /></p><p>Find <i>A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942</i> on <a href="https://amzn.to/3qpOyl2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon</a> or wherever books are sold.</p><p>--</p><p><script type="text/javascript">
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Book Review: A Study in Crimson: Sherlock Holmes 1942

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BREAKING: Hound Manuscript Leaf Sold at Auction for Record Price

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"made a record of it" [SUSS] </h4><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinq4vG8rRD0ryufDWe98hfzfe-g_g7wg2ktvM1r0PaFsT1G8hbSZACXHbrJ5Mbdx48sxqJPz17nmZ0PStObqaprPBsls74mugl2iwHjz7NAqeAKc36qSzdE3VN9UuTumy5ziFXAL3FtzCD/s1216/Heritage+HOUN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1216" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinq4vG8rRD0ryufDWe98hfzfe-g_g7wg2ktvM1r0PaFsT1G8hbSZACXHbrJ5Mbdx48sxqJPz17nmZ0PStObqaprPBsls74mugl2iwHjz7NAqeAKc36qSzdE3VN9UuTumy5ziFXAL3FtzCD/w640-h412/Heritage+HOUN.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>The Heritage Auction of the first page of Chapter XIII of The Hound of the Baskervilles happened in Dallas (and online) today. And the selling price was a record.</p><p>The opening bid was set for $85,000 and the expected selling price was estimated to be $170,000. More on the history of the manuscript and previous sales can be <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2021/11/rare-manuscript-page-from-hound-of.html#.YYbWNWDMLb0" target="_blank">found here</a>.</p><p><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">The last time a leaf from the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Hound </i><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">manuscript sold was </span><a href="https://www.bestofsherlock.com/ref/baskervilles-ms-christies-2012.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #013fd3; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">December 2012, when it went for more than $150,000</a><span face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">. The previous sale of another leaf was for $78,000 in December 2004.</span></p><p>This time, however, all of those records were shattered.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6e6IP3F3N1BkeEMoh_8JbhRAXxtLvVE5Vz_0XcEady2fNBtqwGXP1qZZERMk5RdQVVt2hOolId1Mi0wybpYgNMXYilHmuSSWkZycussmdnECN_9XrgDmQusFYnt564L-P8Mh91UvoToZI/s2048/Heritage+HOUN+MS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1279" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6e6IP3F3N1BkeEMoh_8JbhRAXxtLvVE5Vz_0XcEady2fNBtqwGXP1qZZERMk5RdQVVt2hOolId1Mi0wybpYgNMXYilHmuSSWkZycussmdnECN_9XrgDmQusFYnt564L-P8Mh91UvoToZI/w400-h640/Heritage+HOUN+MS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>The selling price for this page of the manuscript of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> was <b>$340,000</b> (<b>$423,000</b>, including the buyer's premium)  </p><p>If you'd like to hear more from a serious collector of original manuscripts, be sure to listen to <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose227" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 227</a> of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere: <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose227" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects</a> with Glen Miranker, BSI ("<i>The Origin of Tree Worship</i>").</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1151104270&color=%23ce1a21&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sherlock-holmes-in-221-objects" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects">Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects</a></div><br /><p></p><p>--</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>

BREAKING: Hound Manuscript Leaf Sold at Auction for Record Price

"made a record of it" [SUSS] The Heritage Auction of the first page of Chapter XIII of The Hound of the Baskervilles happened i...

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Rare Manuscript Page from The Hound of the Baskervilles Up for Auction

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"a rare specimen" [CREE]  </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOGnc9zAh3WWG38eqJn9mHQKplG8NWbdAmzVqWdfM5-AxwFqodc1SJIQRMQ9q4ozXSynMsITQvSSGZLI8onUoTDhLMfG2Xheaykot6rR-ImckS_zEOhlFMTPCXOAtvCZYbKCKC77i9SoDd/s1216/Heritage+HOUN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1216" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOGnc9zAh3WWG38eqJn9mHQKplG8NWbdAmzVqWdfM5-AxwFqodc1SJIQRMQ9q4ozXSynMsITQvSSGZLI8onUoTDhLMfG2Xheaykot6rR-ImckS_zEOhlFMTPCXOAtvCZYbKCKC77i9SoDd/w640-h412/Heritage+HOUN.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>On Saturday, November 6, Heritage Auctions will auction off one of the rarest collectibles in the world of Sherlock Holmes: <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/autographs/authors/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-autograph-manuscript-leaf-from-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/a/6243-47171.s" target="_blank">a single leaf from the manuscript of <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i></a>.</p><p>Arthur Conan Doyle wrote this novel in 1901 as a bridge between "The Final Problem" (1894) and "The Empty House" (1903). It was billed as a retrospection, not a resurrection. However, the public demand was so great following the serial publication of <i>The Hound</i>, and the financial offer so generous from Greenough Smith, editor of the <i>Strand Magazin</i>e, that Conan Doyle couldn't refuse.</p><p>Doyle's American publisher, McClure, Phillips & Company came up with a brilliant publicity campaign for the book: they disassembled the manuscript and offered them, as single sheets, to dealers who purchased copies of the book.</p><p>According to Heritage:</p><blockquote><p>"Unfortunately, due to the fact that this particular manuscript was written on highly acidic paper, and the individual pages were mounted with equally acidic backing material, most of the pages used in the promotion have not survived either their framing or their display conditions. Only a very small percentage exists today - and few are in as good condition as this particular leaf. This particular page is a highly desirable one — it contains actual mention of Sherlock Holmes — referred to as "Holmes"."</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The leaf in question is the first page of Chapter XIII, titled "Fixing the Nets". It opens thusly:</p><blockquote><p>"We're at close grips at last," said Holmes, as we walked together across the moor. "What a nerve the fellow has! How he pulled himself together in the face of what must have been a paralysing shock when he found that the wrong man had fallen a victim to his plot. I told you in London, Watson, and I tell you now again, that we have never had a foeman more worthy of our steel."</p></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmP83n0IgA6LGeKFM_sLc0-dWIAfYGujkEUufPb5R7qxMmEjXQqQSTBglXtT_TWvk7skEaJnQnEF37vYKeCXc3Nh9M1hkuxqgkTGSm6jyMDCpk-AAyueSweT2XLEFYo-4-rcWXiLpl6iH9/s2048/Heritage+HOUN+MS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1279" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmP83n0IgA6LGeKFM_sLc0-dWIAfYGujkEUufPb5R7qxMmEjXQqQSTBglXtT_TWvk7skEaJnQnEF37vYKeCXc3Nh9M1hkuxqgkTGSm6jyMDCpk-AAyueSweT2XLEFYo-4-rcWXiLpl6iH9/w400-h640/Heritage+HOUN+MS.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><p>This is a significant auction, as this is one of only three privately-held manuscript pages with a chapter heading. Of the estimated 185-page manuscript, there are only <a href="https://www.bestofsherlock.com/baskervilles-manuscript.htm" target="_blank">37 leaves</a> known to be in existence, according to Randall Stock's <a href="https://www.bestofsherlock.com/baskervilles-manuscript.htm" target="_blank">Best of Sherlock census</a>. Twenty-four are owned by institutions, ten are in the hands of private collectors, and the whereabouts of the other three are unknown (including <a href="http://www.bestofsherlock.com/mss/hound-manuscript-stolen.htm" target="_blank">one that was stolen</a>). </p><p>The only full chapter known to exist resides with the New York Public Library; it was the subject of the first volume of the BSI Press Manuscript Series, <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2001/12/31/hound-baskervilles-ch11/" target="_blank">The Hound of the Baskervilles (Ch. XI.)</a></i>, and is the chapter titled "The Man on the Tor". </p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">“I fancy that I see your Grace’s cheque-book upon the table” [PRIO]</h3><p>Get those checkbooks ready. This isn't going to be a small affair.</p><div>The last time a leaf from the <i>Hound </i>manuscript sold was <a href="https://www.bestofsherlock.com/ref/baskervilles-ms-christies-2012.htm" target="_blank">December 2012, when it went for more than $150,000</a>. The previous sale of another leaf was for $78,000 in December 2004.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>By comparison, the opening bid for this leaf (H.31 in Randall Stock's census) is <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/autographs/authors/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-autograph-manuscript-leaf-from-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/a/6243-47171.s" target="_blank">$85,000</a> ($106,250 with the buyer's premium), but estimates are pegged at $170,000. </div><div><br /></div><div>Will it sell? Will it achieve the estimate? It was offered at auction twice before: in December 2011 (pre-sale estimate: $115,00-125,000) and April 2016 (pre-sale estimate $100,000-150,000), but went unsold in both cases. Given that the opening bid is well below each of those previous estimates, we're optimistic; however, the number of likely buyers for this is exceptionally low. But perhaps the pandemic has created a some pent-up desire.</div><div><br /></div><div>More information about the auction can be found at <a href="https://historical.ha.com/itm/autographs/authors/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-autograph-manuscript-leaf-from-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/a/6243-47171.s" target="_blank">Heritage Auctions</a>, including <a href="https://historical.ha.com/c/catalog-print.zx?saleNo=6243&ic5=CatalogHome-AucType-PrintableCatalog-071515" target="_blank">a PDF of the catalog</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>And extensive information about the manuscript, its history, and photos can be found at <a href="https://www.bestofsherlock.com/mss/hound-baskervilles-h31-2021.htm" target="_blank">Best of Sherlock</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>--</div><div><br /></div>

Rare Manuscript Page from The Hound of the Baskervilles Up for Auction

"a rare specimen" [CREE] On Saturday, November 6, Heritage Auctions will auction off one of the rarest collectibles in the world...

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Book Review: Sherlock's Secretary

<h4 style="text-align: center;">"I set myself to find out what had become of the secretary " [STUD]</h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq6ICiPXmw8Od2ciPFkGtzIdgqdIbdZSM5KCQdO4n6375lrIUO2rq-Qfkt8jgD01mKcWnIjTQmmlfV3IWqT6BdugXx_ur0WosmsPVwSZZ0j-z4Zc4GMEEYMP7YO8acz3_8MDS-hfOqhRHn/s880/Sherlock%2527s+Secretary-cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="880" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq6ICiPXmw8Od2ciPFkGtzIdgqdIbdZSM5KCQdO4n6375lrIUO2rq-Qfkt8jgD01mKcWnIjTQmmlfV3IWqT6BdugXx_ur0WosmsPVwSZZ0j-z4Zc4GMEEYMP7YO8acz3_8MDS-hfOqhRHn/w640-h552/Sherlock%2527s+Secretary-cropped.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Addy Zhuang has a job many of us would kill for. He's been hired to answer Sherlock Holmes' mail. Well, the messages that people send to 221B Baker Street, one of the most famous addresses of all time. <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3nQLaNi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock's Secretary</a></i> is a present-day mystery novel that begins when someone steals some of Sherlock's letters. </p><p>Addy and true crime podcaster (and object of Addy's crush) Zabel Carvalho follow the clues to find out who's behind the theft and why. Along the way, they discover a ridiculous group of exaggerated personalities, including a small group of local Holmes Society members who can't agree on anything. </p><p>There's also a terrible never-seen 1960s TV movie about Sherlock Holmes that plays a role. The desire to find a missing TV episode is one many fans will relate to. They will likely also appreciate the scene-setting references. Sidney Paget, Benedict Cumberbatch, Basil of Baker Street, <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose185" target="_blank">William S. Baring-Gould</a>, and Jonny Lee Miller, among others, all get a passing mention. </p><p>It's the details that caught me. I have no idea whether this is a real job [<i><a href="https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/10/06/the-curious-incident-of-sherlock-holmess-real-life-secretary" target="_blank">It was</a>. - Ed.</i>], or what happens to Sherlock's mail these days, but I loved thinking about how Addy handled the task and decorated his office. The discussions he and Zabel have, trying to apply Sherlock's methods and puzzle out what's going on, are the kinds of conversations many Sherlockians have envisioned, were they lucky enough to be pulled into a mystery. </p><p>This is a light, breezy read that moves quickly through its twists and turns. I enjoyed the couple of hours I spent with it. </p><p><br /></p><p><i><b></b></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7H4k7yX5vKUU4b-q12fRh5eC-dzE6eHzNll1zvdvCZ6ZTBit6ODF8l5GyPvoqjG82enNO5yKIAFbbKgtzuNVwOeXnfzCf4IDC9rSUVgBbHZZ0l0lGsw-gzaqCGYTIvuE1Dd33rGdYQiJm/s1360/Sherlock%2527s+Secretary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="880" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7H4k7yX5vKUU4b-q12fRh5eC-dzE6eHzNll1zvdvCZ6ZTBit6ODF8l5GyPvoqjG82enNO5yKIAFbbKgtzuNVwOeXnfzCf4IDC9rSUVgBbHZZ0l0lGsw-gzaqCGYTIvuE1Dd33rGdYQiJm/w129-h200/Sherlock%2527s+Secretary.jpg" width="129" /></a></b></i></div><i><b><br />Sherlock's Secretary</b></i> by Chris Chan, published by MX Publishing, November 2021. <br /><br />Available at <a href="https://mxpublishing.com/products/sherlocks-secretary?_pos=1&_sid=b8024286e&_ss=r" target="_blank">MX Publishing</a>, <a href="https://amzn.to/3nQLaNi" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sherlocks-secretary-chris-chan/1140147507?ean=9781787058842" target="_blank">Barnes & Noble</a>, and wherever books are sold.<br /><br />Also, check out Chris Chan's <a href="https://chrischancrimeandcriticism.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Crime & Criticism</a> blog.<p></p><p><span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><i>--</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></p><script type="text/javascript">
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Book Review: Sherlock's Secretary

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Celebrating Jeremy Brett's Birthday

<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>"</b>your celebrated friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes<b>" [NAVA] </b></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqsJmqlO7IYkecp6iMo7m8tAgN8xZgf8w2smpaunoBCtuazv8-UmR4TXlNxYjdI6rrsMyoRU72KEINS8gTeU6X8OthD7DzRYOfNGCGmn3K1pZX5pPYjZ_n5G4f8JcvgfwsSVFwOxidu5sg/s1080/Jeremy+Brett+smile.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="1080" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqsJmqlO7IYkecp6iMo7m8tAgN8xZgf8w2smpaunoBCtuazv8-UmR4TXlNxYjdI6rrsMyoRU72KEINS8gTeU6X8OthD7DzRYOfNGCGmn3K1pZX5pPYjZ_n5G4f8JcvgfwsSVFwOxidu5sg/w640-h402/Jeremy+Brett+smile.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>It seems hard to fathom, but today marks what would have been Jeremy Brett's 88th birthday. It's unthinkable to imagine the definitive Sherlock Holmes from the Granda productions of the 1980s and 1990s as an octogenarian, and even more unthinkable that it has been 26 years since he left us.<br /><br />As a tribute to his memory, we give you this delightful remembrance of <a href="https://youtu.be/FcPb4FKUWWM">Brett's playfulness as Sherlock Holmes</a>:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FcPb4FKUWWM?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><center><br /></center><br /><br />And this video compilation of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UOTIW83oXs" target="_blank">the best Sherlock Holmes quotes</a> from the Granada series (Season 1) is as nice as any:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3UOTIW83oXs?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><center><br /></center><br /><br />If you'd like to read more about Jeremy Brett (November 3, 1933 - September 12, 1995), please check out <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Jeremy%20Brett" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">all of our posts tagged "Jeremy Brett"</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">More Jeremy Brett:</h3><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://ihose.co/ihose201" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 201: Remembering Jeremy Brett</a> (interview with <i>Bending the Willow</i> author David Stuart Davies)</li><li><a href="https://ihose.co/ihose203" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 203: The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast</a> (interview with Gus and Luke Holwerda)</li><li>New book: <i><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2020/07/new-jeremy-brett-book-on-kickstarter.html#.Y1qgCXbMLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeremy Brett: Playing a Part</a></i></li><li><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3TXISeh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series [Blu ray]</a></i> (12-disc set of remastered episodes from Granada)</li></ul><br><br><script type="text/javascript">
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Celebrating Jeremy Brett's Birthday

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Baker Street Elementary – First Things First

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“I have been fooled in this way” [STOC] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv-q18vx_haPso-zewlYsAjXKBEurgU-gcdhf8kuTPu0jyW_Aq_OxXBH8J0sLTwVeC8xIZiyMHZvNdB1u0sBjx16coHi5AUprS3tL43wmMnqn9svZukUbyIaGOX3BBwmhWJM-H2HOjbpXs/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv-q18vx_haPso-zewlYsAjXKBEurgU-gcdhf8kuTPu0jyW_Aq_OxXBH8J0sLTwVeC8xIZiyMHZvNdB1u0sBjx16coHi5AUprS3tL43wmMnqn9svZukUbyIaGOX3BBwmhWJM-H2HOjbpXs/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>In our <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2021/10/baker-street-elementary-pooled-resources.html#.YX_vb55Kjb0" target="_blank">previous Baker Street Elementary installment</a>, we explored the concept of atavism, or of the expression of certain attributes throughout generations of families.</div><div><br /></div><div>As one of the examples—the portrait of Sir Hugo Baskerville and his stunning likeness in the form of Stapleton—Sherlock Holmes makes it clear that he instantly saw the connection upon seeing the painting, due to the skills he honed as a detective:</div><div><blockquote><div>“My eyes have been trained to examine faces and not their trimmings. It is the first quality of a criminal investigator that he should see through a disguise.” [HOUN]</div></blockquote></div><div>The first quality. As in table stakes. The bare minimum. What you would expect from a professional consulting detective.</div><div><br /></div><div>And yet...</div><div><br /></div><div>In the very first novel, <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, Sherlock Holmes is fooled by an actor who visited Baker Street in the costume of an old woman:</div><div><blockquote><div>“Old woman be damned!” said Sherlock Holmes, sharply. “We were the old women to be so taken in. It must have been a young man, and an active one, too, besides being an incomparable actor. The get-up was inimitable.”</div></blockquote></div><div>This wasn't a terribly confidence-inspiring performance by the young detective, so full of himself in front of Watson with his <i>Book of Life</i> ego and his you-have-been-in-Afghanistan-I-perceive smugness.</div><div><br /></div><div>And then, when he was introduced to readers of the <i>Strand Magazine</i> in “A Scandal in Bohemia,” once again we find the Sherlock Holmes fooled by a disguise, although this time it was a woman dressed as a man:</div><div><blockquote><div>“I’ve heard that voice before,” said Holmes, staring down the dimly lit street. “Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have been.”</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>There would be other disguises in the Sherlock Holmes stories — James Windibank as Hosmer Angel, Neville St. Claire as Hugh Boone, Arthur Pinner as Harry Pinner, Sir Robert Norberton as Lady Beatrice Falder — all of which Holmes is able to detect. So his statement in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> was consistent with the image he wished to present to the world.</div><div><div><blockquote>“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” returned my companion, bitterly. “The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.” [STUD]</blockquote></div></div><div><br /></div><div>While Holmes would have us believe that he could never be fooled by a disguise, we know the truth. As Holmes himself tells us in <i>The Sign of Four</i>:</div><div><blockquote><div>“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”</div></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>You never forget your first.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><div>Now on to more frightening things at Baker Street Elementary...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhngA3aTIXztJ08qOTC9OsngwS1lPAM0K9D27Z1Af1TDIx97yy0fXI68_ZD6lpcE1GqzPiEL0et66cYdroHKKLskS7sOABhu8b0w2T5GxHjE1TpWAhXhATqdRuqCmkDZQMuffpw8JHT4vJy/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhngA3aTIXztJ08qOTC9OsngwS1lPAM0K9D27Z1Af1TDIx97yy0fXI68_ZD6lpcE1GqzPiEL0et66cYdroHKKLskS7sOABhu8b0w2T5GxHjE1TpWAhXhATqdRuqCmkDZQMuffpw8JHT4vJy/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPlcoYMiftVUQFU94z-xQ4CFoyWigeWarhjHMlLK3LLO1g3b2x9FdQAm3DlLVqAzCMJnL8BaTF9KhyphenhyphennIhMo7PScmi9I6UDyOD16lBwaVjgKbLnsZvM8AgcGJ4zBi4dPM-BBo0H2ljBcftW/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPlcoYMiftVUQFU94z-xQ4CFoyWigeWarhjHMlLK3LLO1g3b2x9FdQAm3DlLVqAzCMJnL8BaTF9KhyphenhyphennIhMo7PScmi9I6UDyOD16lBwaVjgKbLnsZvM8AgcGJ4zBi4dPM-BBo0H2ljBcftW/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.3.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpaluaxBW-oBPxVKVt0HKkukzZ-x7igfSn5BmsBPcChwr7Z2e-c1ORin1IxqVKtFwKyHUGiw_y9fls8D32l0mqhyqg46G9aMvZdlir8NHIawloRfBEOtR2c5RCD8JijfYF9zvWN2hK4SNW/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpaluaxBW-oBPxVKVt0HKkukzZ-x7igfSn5BmsBPcChwr7Z2e-c1ORin1IxqVKtFwKyHUGiw_y9fls8D32l0mqhyqg46G9aMvZdlir8NHIawloRfBEOtR2c5RCD8JijfYF9zvWN2hK4SNW/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRl9WGrGQUR4pEP5nBYm_RTHEsM4ocKY4teEkvx7MvRsXORxqdXBCbqH_4H-LeeLvr7M_obFAspWkWt2lPGT7wOpU8ox6Zc_Uz9-nIcryfuM8YLWJHJCVrOc4CjnTBNU-1PVbP4LjTBKtN/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.5.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRl9WGrGQUR4pEP5nBYm_RTHEsM4ocKY4teEkvx7MvRsXORxqdXBCbqH_4H-LeeLvr7M_obFAspWkWt2lPGT7wOpU8ox6Zc_Uz9-nIcryfuM8YLWJHJCVrOc4CjnTBNU-1PVbP4LjTBKtN/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.5.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdL-9LHTGCUvH4OBplBuQWHY5KGsdsHPqMR7p7KjAM8YBZk29cLHvxFMc_EvWI4S9EfoXPE7sY_EaR2yB_FHzuw9sSq5vDyLxu6U-dWpe-GVn8Wg3Z-GIPk5fbtvOoM_ajS9qzcE76pbm/s768/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdL-9LHTGCUvH4OBplBuQWHY5KGsdsHPqMR7p7KjAM8YBZk29cLHvxFMc_EvWI4S9EfoXPE7sY_EaR2yB_FHzuw9sSq5vDyLxu6U-dWpe-GVn8Wg3Z-GIPk5fbtvOoM_ajS9qzcE76pbm/w640-h480/Baker+Street+Elementary+118.6.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Baker Street Elementary</i></b><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"> follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at </span><a href="http://www.bakerstreetelementary.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #006f85; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">www.bakerstreetelementary.org</a><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #0e0e0e; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s1600/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGyHxoov2AdCNzI-sA382WHyzmCYKmU5vuVxxUUbwgmzd_zESpxNTWBoDo-0BOUVmZPf0EpIOXFT9y59il288HBvx1-_JJJXxHhZAn2orzWJPWbYZasKlLBplbQMHDaY9thgs_w1diI7ch/s640/Baker+Street+Elementary.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><br />--</div></div></div></div><div><br /></div></div>

Baker Street Elementary – First Things First

“I have been fooled in this way” [STOC] In our previous Baker Street Elementary installment , we explored the concept of atavism, or of the...

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by Scott Monty

Episode 227: Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“there were several objects in the room which called for special attention” [BLAC] </h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgDn4Kw3Md0VRfuQgL_BI9hPG3tuv_5jrjaEVIXk5ePei9ggd4vrZCILTjZyfGwAoZdcQ0Wj2wDrADJ42Jn_Hy0lBZkICKYANXnMgJWs94Rj-66Mbeg5BOe54War3CE-9G3GZA93fyiWBI/s1800/Sherlockin221Header.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgDn4Kw3Md0VRfuQgL_BI9hPG3tuv_5jrjaEVIXk5ePei9ggd4vrZCILTjZyfGwAoZdcQ0Wj2wDrADJ42Jn_Hy0lBZkICKYANXnMgJWs94Rj-66Mbeg5BOe54War3CE-9G3GZA93fyiWBI/w640-h320/Sherlockin221Header.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p>Collecting must be in the air: following our last episode with Rebecca Romney talking about Sherlockian collecting, we have with us the legendary Sherlockian collector Glen Miranker, BSI ("The Origin of Tree Worship"), who is staging an exhibit in conjunction with the Grolier Club in January.</p><p>The exhibition is "Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects" and will run from January 12 - April 16, 2022. Glen and his wife Cathy Miranker curated the 221 objects, selected from Glen's impressive trove of over 8,000 items.</p><p>You'll hear how he came to acquire some of those objects, how he (or rather his erstwhile conscience) decides when to add an item to the collection, what it's like to prepare his most precious items to be loaned to an institution, and what to expect at the exhibition.</p><p>[Note: we did encounter a bit of sound disruption in during the recording; consider it akin to the static you might hear in old time radio shows.]</p><p>To honor Glen's appearance, our <b>Canonical Couplet</b> will get the winner a collectible from the IHOSE vaults. Answers are due by November 14, 2021 at 11:59 a.m. EDT.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/58084551" target="_blank">BONUS CONTEN</a></b>T: If you become a patron of the show, you'll be able to see some additional photos from the exhibition, as well as a listing of some of the items. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/58084551" target="_blank">Click here for more</a>.</p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-patreon-widget-type="become-patron-button" href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=2318606">Become a Patron!</a></div><script async="" src="https://c6.patreon.com/becomePatronButton.bundle.js"></script><p></p><div><div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Please do consider becoming a <a href="https://ihose.co/ihosepatron" target="_blank">Patron of the Arts</a>. 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Episode 227: Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects

“there were several objects in the room which called for special attention” [BLAC] Collecting must be in the air: following our last episod...

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by Scott Monty

Remembering Michael Whelan, BSI

<h4 style="text-align: center;"> “it is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen” [FINA] </h4><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj03p-aPzWBuS9nqLI6n_mR6giNWcLMas-g9g4SKYdV2bSvlEZ6Qw1jBO2GuLmiVLnx8y3n1Y-8_SDXlxuPbrTmmMxG0OSZ6wQny0QTTxRiQTRzvCS-7COw1uXnVETb58tZrLJ3QsAP3HV1/s1073/Whelan+-+Mastery.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1073" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj03p-aPzWBuS9nqLI6n_mR6giNWcLMas-g9g4SKYdV2bSvlEZ6Qw1jBO2GuLmiVLnx8y3n1Y-8_SDXlxuPbrTmmMxG0OSZ6wQny0QTTxRiQTRzvCS-7COw1uXnVETb58tZrLJ3QsAP3HV1/w640-h418/Whelan+-+Mastery.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cover of <i><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2020/12/26/quiet-air-of-mastery/" target="_blank">“A Quiet Air of Mastery”</a></i> from the BSI Press</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>This morning we learned the sad news of the passing of Michael F. Whelan, BSI (“Vincent Spaulding”), who served as “Wiggins,” or head of the Baker Street Irregulars, for 23 years.</p><p>We're still gathering our thoughts around this news, as it is as personal as it is profound. It was under Mike's leadership in 2001 that your editor received his investiture, <span style="text-align: center;">“</span>Corporal Henry Wood.<span style="text-align: center;">”</span></p><p>Mike was the second-longest serving head of the BSI (Julian Wolff served 26 years, from 1960-1986). And in his time, it is fair to say that he transformed the BSI. He approached it with a businessman's eye and acumen, delegating much of the responsibilities to eager volunteers. His accomplishments are legion.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">“all they want is organisation<span style="text-align: center;">” [STUD]</span></h3><p>Mike squarely positioned the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars</a> as a literary society, shaping its focus and giving the organization ten so-called exemplars that members should strive for:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Promote and nurture Grand Game scholarship</li><li>Diverse, exceptional, merit-based membership—not elitist </li><li>Kind, welcoming clubbability with joyful, whimsical environment </li><li>Altruistic volunteerism—giving more than you receive—“society above self” </li><li>Aspirational, not reactionary </li><li>Inherent modesty vs. taking oneself too seriously </li><li>Extremely high standards—reject “good enough” </li><li>Societal leadership fiscally responsible—sufficient funds maintained to
accomplish most, if not all, objectives </li><li>Societal and member Sherlockian charitable generosity </li><li>No politics and no contentious agendas </li></ul><p></p><p>Having such guiding principles and aspirations give any organization and its members the impetus to constantly challenge themselves to do better. And that's what Mike wanted.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">“I have been guilty of several monographs” [BRUC]</h3><p>Mike took what was once a side-interest of the BSI and turned it into a central focus: the small red-backed volumes that Edgar W. Smith (the BSI's Commissionaire from 1940-1960) published and that the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/tag/history/" target="_blank">BSI Archival Series</a> echoed became the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/the-bsi-press/" target="_blank">BSI Press</a> under Mike's leadership.</p><p>The BSI Press became a powerhouse of a small press publisher, cranking out more than 60 volumes. From the BSI Archival Series that focus on the history of the organization to the <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/tag/international/" target="_blank">BSI Manuscript Series, BSI International Series</a>, and <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/tag/professions/" target="_blank">BSI Professions Series</a>, Sherlockians worldwide were given a chance to read more deeply about Sherlock Holmes.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">“a series of events” [DEVI]</h3><p>The famed <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/bsi-weekend/" target="_blank">BSI Weekend</a> was always the centerpiece of the BSI's year, but Mike sought to extend the BSI's geographical presence beyond New York City. He tapped various members across the country to develop associated excursions every few years. Some of these included:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/09/episode-104-sherlockians-at-chautauqua.html" target="_blank">The Mind and Art of Sherlock Holmes</a> (Chautauqua, NY, 2016)</li><li>Sherlock Holmes: Behind the Canonical Screen (UCLA, 2012 )</li><li>A Tangled Skein – A Study in Scarlet Expedition (Salt Lake City, UT, 2008)</li><li>Murderland – The Valley of Fear Expedition (PA, 2004)</li></ul><p></p><p>Each of these had <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/tag/event+books/" target="_blank">an accompanying publication</a> that captured the scholarship shared at the associated event.</p><p>At the BSI Weekend itself, Mike established the BSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture, to kick off the events on Thursday evening. This event brought in an author to talk about their particular area of focus.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">“for the sake of the trust” [MUSG]</h3><p>In addition to events and publications, Mike's crowning achievement was the establishment of the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/" target="_blank">Baker Street Irregulars Trust</a>. The BSI Trust is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose purpose is "to collect, preserve, and provide access to historical documents, correspondence, papers, photos, recordings, and memorabilia relating to the BSI and its members and friends."</p><p>As part of that mission, the Trust established the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html" target="_blank">BSI Archive</a> first at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and then moved to the Lilly Library at Indiana University.</p><p>I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere was at the opening celebration, "Building an Archive," and reported on it in <a href="https://ihose.co/ihose180">Episode 180</a>. We also had <a href="https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/06/episode-53-for-sake-of-trust.html#.YX1l8Z7MLb0" target="_blank">an interview with the first head of the BSI Trust</a>, Tom Francis.</p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/713329357&color=%23ce1a21&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/live-from-the-lilly-library" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Live from the Lilly Library">Live from the Lilly Library</a></div><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">“he must certainly have been a giant” [WIST] </h3><p>It's impossible to effectively state how profound Mike Whelan's impact on the Baker Street Irregulars was. He went everywhere, saw everything, and overheard everyone in his mission to keep green the Master's memory. </p><p>And while he was the first to admit that his role was one of a "benevolent dictator," he did more to empower individuals to contribute to the future of the BSI than anyone before. He rightly observed that he viewed his role as one of a steward, a temporary leader, on the evolution of the institution.</p><p>He had a succession plan, leaving Michael Kean, BSI (“General Gordon”), who had led the publications arm, in charge of the organization — a multi-year plan with plenty of coordination and collaboration. When he handed over the reins, Mike was confident in the direction and stewardship of the BSI under Michael Kean's leadership.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mike closed his final letter to the BSI membership:<br /></p><blockquote>“And so, dear fellow members, this is the last formal “Wiggins” letter I’ll be sending to the membership. It has been a great ride. My deepest thanks to Irregulars whose special support made my job easier and made me look better than I was. Special thanks to Mary Ann, my spouse of 43 years, who steadfastly supported me during my journey as Wiggins, and toiled in the BSI vineyard, the extent to which no one may ever fully realize. I’ve made many lifelong friends from all over the world in this Sherlockian universe of ours. What a job it has been, if you can call it a job… more, a joy. It actually was a grand privilege running the BSI, a literary society like none other.”</blockquote><p>We will miss Mike's presence, both in person and in spirit, at the BSI. But his legacy will live on.</p><p>You can listen to our conversations with Mike, as chronicled in <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sets/remembering-mike-whelan-bsis" target="_blank">episodes 14, 15, and 71 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a>:</p><p><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1339299112&color=%23ce1a21&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true" width="100%"></iframe></p><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere">I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ihearofsherlock/sets/remembering-mike-whelan-bsis" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Remembering Mike Whelan, BSI's "Wiggins"">Remembering Mike Whelan, BSI's "Wiggins"</a></div><p></p><p>The BSI appropriately honored Mike in one of the latest entries in the BSI Biography series: <i style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/2020/12/26/quiet-air-of-mastery/" target="_blank">“A Quiet Air of Mastery”</a></i><span style="text-align: center;"> from the BSI Press.</span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p>If you have memories of Mike Whelan that you'd like to share, please leave them in the comment section below.</p><p>Meanwhile, here are some photos of MIke throughout our years at BSI events. 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